God forbid someone is named Riley, Sam, Charlie, etc.

I thought the same thing as well.

I have a few trans friends and neighbors who told me that basically when they came out and tried to change gender, no one would acknowledge their new identity. So it's a subtle way to inform other people.

Also, I have met more than a few people whom I had no idea of their gender. So it's actually great to read that pronoun because I don't like playing guessing games.

Or, in my case, for solidarity and normalizing it.

https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/

Peter Thiel has many times loudly stated his goal since 9/11: Create scapegoats so the public has somebody to blame for their suffering and his fervent belief this will keep billionaires safe. My guess is most billionaires see it this way.

if you want to see a way to defeat this idea look up Thiel's interview with Piers Morgan after Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Brian Thompson

Two core reasons:

1. Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you're too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won't strike against the Billionaires.
2. Insecurity. If the world isn't actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants ("replacing" their community's racial dynamic), homeless people ("not wanting to work" like they did), climate change (this couldn't possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It's all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.

They don't care, they just need an other to blame to get everyone scared of.

Well, eggs are back to $1 a dozen and everyone has housing and excellent healtcare coverage, so you can focus on renaming gulfs and prosecuting minorities...

They need an 'enemy' to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

They don't care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.

100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it's the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.

Try stopping eating animals. Huge cut in groceries

That's not a pronoun, but it could function as a replacement to skirt this ruling, assuming it doesn't include gendered honorifics.

Don’t think whom is a pronoun, is it?

You used it

This would make a great pronoun or title attached to your name. Sign off every email with ...

John Doe
Jesus Fucking Christ